ATI FirePro V8700: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started FirePro V8700 sales 11 September 2008 at a recommended price of $1,499. This is TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.4 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 108.8 GB / s.

Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 254 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 151 Watt.

Technical specs

FirePro V8700's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro V8700's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Memory

Parameters of memory installed on FirePro V8700: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Video outputs and ports

API support

APIs supported by FirePro V8700, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

10.1

OpenGL

3.3

of 4.6

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good FirePro V8700 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Comparisons with system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.